The top-ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee said President Barack Obama could possibly be impeached over what happened in Benghazi.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said in a radio interview Thursday that of all the great cover-ups in history  including the Pentagon papers, Iran-Contra and Watergate  Benghazi is going to go down as most serious, most egregious cover-up in American history.

We may be starting to use the I-word before too long, Inhofe said on the Las Vegas-based Rusty Humphries Show.

The I-word meaning impeachment? Humphries asked.

Yeah, Inhofe confirmed.

When Humphries questioned the likelihood of impeachment, Inhofe said it wouldnt be immediate.....

If impeachment proceedings are initiated Osama Obama will take many pages out of the playbook of Billy Bob Blythe,who became *more* popular after impeachment...and will write a few pages of his own.Politically,an attempt to impeach will backfire enormously on the Republicans.Add to that the fact that pigs will fly before even a third of Senators vote to “convict” and you have an exercise in completely futility...*politically* speaking.There will be no Woodward or Bernstein here...not even close.

4 dead and how many seriously wounded, saved only because the Libyan government (which little barry bastard boy threw under the bus as soon as he could get his female black mouthpiece onto network Sunday shows) stepped in and evaced the wounded. Yet the media, anti-American vermin that they are, are spinning as afst as they can to try and make US believe any lie the regime feeds them ‘off the record’!

Good grief, Inhofe! Talk about out-kicking your coverage! The Republicans still don’t understand how the media will protect Obama. I like the tenacity, but it’s way too early to start that kind of talk. Focus! Focus! Focus!

"According to Benghazi whistleblower Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission in Libya, special forces were furious when they were told to stand down during the Benghazi attack. I will quote Lieutenant Colonel Gibson, Hicks told the House Oversight Committee in hearings today, He said, This is the first time in my career that a diplomat has more balls than somebody in the military."

"Another whistle-blower questioned Wednesday why more military assets were not deployed sooner during the Benghazi terror attack. Mark Thompson, a former Marine and official with the State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau, said he was rebuffed by the White House when he asked for a specialized team -- known as a FEST team -- to be deployed. This is a unit made of special operations personnel, diplomatic security, intelligence and other officers."

"Nordstrom further testified in writing that Hillary Clinton waived security requirements for the Benghazi consulate despite high and critical threat levels in the six categories of security standards established under the Overseas Security Policy Board and the Secure Embassy Construction and Counterterrorism Act of 1999. The waiver can only be authorized by the Secretary of State, who cannot delegate that responsibility to someone else. If the Secretary of State did not waive these requirements, who did so by ordering occupancy of the facilities in Benghazi and Tripoli? Nordstrom wrote."

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posted on 05/10/2013 7:37:21 PM PDT
by TigersEye
("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)

Being a senator on the arms services committee I am sure he is talking to unnamed military who know what you know that jets could have been on station in under two hours out of Italy . We had NATO assets within 450 miles and the French had assets able to respond. All of these options could have been utilized but only by the President of the United States. He was unavailable and people died.

Then like all juveniles he lied and got others to lie to cover it up.

Pathetic .

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posted on 05/10/2013 7:49:43 PM PDT
by crosslink
(Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)

Most Egregious Cover-Up in American History
***Not really. That coverup was Certifigate. Obama will skate on Benghazi just like Nixon skated on “Checkers”. Maybe history will catch up to him, maybe it won’t. But with a complicit media, the chances are very slim. Nixon had an adversarial media.

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